Wood selected for NCAA golf tournament

MANHATTAN — Kansas State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie completed his new coaching staff, announcing Monday that Claire Coggins has been promoted from director of operations to assistant coach.

Coggins, a former K-State player, was retained off the staff of former coach Deb Patterson, who was fired in March. Mittie, who came to K-State from TCU, previously announced the hiring of associate head coach Brian Ostermann and Ebony Gilliam, who were on his TCU staff.

“Claire has been a true K-Stater throughout her playing days and her career as a young coach,” Mittie said. “She has the attitude and work ethic we look for in our players, and that is necessary to put together a championship program."

Coggins was a two-time All-Big 12 second-team selection during her playing career and MVP of the 2006 postseason WNIT, then played professionally in the WNBA and Europe. The upcoming season will be her third on the Wildcat coaching staff.

“I look forward to working hard to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity that (Mittie) has given me,” Coggins said. “Moving forward and being an assistant coach and actually getting to work hands on with the players and help with the recruiting of the team and molding them together, as a new staff, it is really exciting to be able to do it with a pride of K-State and a love of K-State that I have.”

■ K-State golfer Daniel Wood was selected to participate as an individual in the NCAA regional tournament at Columbia, Mo.

Wood, a senior who tied for seventh place at the Big 12 Championship, will compete at the regional May 15-17 at the Club at Old Hawthorne. He is the first Wildcat to receive an NCAA regional bid since Mitchell Gregson and Joe Ida in 2010.

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